Senior Technical Consultant - Montréal, QC, Canada - ROSS

Description

Our client is a leader in business intelligence and analytics. This is your chance to join this great organization which has been included on Fortune's list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" for nine consecutive years. They have engaged ROSS ( to help them recruit a Senior Technical Consultant . ROSS is a team of People Specialists helping companies align their People Strategy with their business growth. We provide remote or onsite HR and Recruitment solutions such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), complimented by leading edge open-source HRIS software.

Our client is looking for a Senior Technical Consultant with experience in installing software in complex environments and application architecture.You must have an understanding of database management concepts, infrastructure scalability, etc.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Takes direction from Senior technical staff on work products that need to be created
• Understands our client's tools and technologies well and demonstrates effective use of them in a customer setting.
• Provides solutions to problems assigned by the technical lead on the project.
• Works well with the team in the project to meet the project objectives.
• Communicates effectively with both the team members and customers both in the written and spoken form.
• Makes effective use of the time to deliver a quality work product as agreed with the technical lead on the project.
• Performs good quality testing of the work product developed.
• Escalates technical issues with the team leader for solution.
• Provides status on tasks assigned in the project to the tech lead and the project manager.
• Ensure up-to-date knowledge in our client's and their competitor solutions, through self-motivated approach to continuous learning.
• Actively participates in knowledge-sharing activities.
• Documents programs and program flows.
• Undertakes design of applications as assigned by the technical lead.
• In smaller projects, acts as a technical lead.
• Coordinates development-level, system testing and acceptance testing of applications and proposes design changes when applicable.
• Designs and authors help screens, menus, indices to ensure ease-of-use and consistency.
• Leads the technical design, programming and code documentation for entire applications.
• Prepares Data Models as required for the application.
• Prepares specification documents for other developers as required.
• Documents requirements and other technical documents according to a methodology.
• Mentors other consultants as required.
• May provide presentations on project under development or projects completed
• Focuses on the development and enforcement of design standards for Consulting services applications.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Fluently bilingual (English & French)
• Bachelor's degree - preferably in Engineering or Computer Science or College Diploma or equivalent work experience.
• At least 8-10 years of relevant work experience
• Working knowledge of common hardware environments and operating systems.
• Knowledge of UNIX, and Windows environments preferred.
• Basic understanding of connectivity issues and connectivity protocols, ability to use and configure software on multiple operating systems.
• Experience using relational database technology such as DB2 or Oracle.
• Experience with software design methodologies.
• Basic conceptual and architecture understanding of solutions.
• Working knowledge of GUI technologies based on Java and .Net (Microsoft). Designs and authors help screens, menus, indices to ensure ease-of-use and consistency.
• Experience with testing and validation techniques in software engineering.
• Good written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to understand and customize software solutions.
• Ability to assess client requirements in a sales setting and suggest technical alternatives.
• Ability to work independently and with a team.
• Ability to travel up to 70%, mostly to Quebec City and some travel to Ottawa. Limited travel to other Canadian cities and the U.S. (corporate headquarters for training)

If you're not interested, but know someone who is, please help a current or former colleague in their career development by referring them. In addition, we're happy to give you a $500 referral fee .

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